Plagiarism-Detect.com (3/6)

Verdict: Although scoring around average amongst its contemporaries, the warning from its homepage, the unreliability of its document upload facility and the basicness of its overall design means it's a website many will want to avoid.

Service: www.plagiarism-detect.com/

What are the subscription options? e.g. free, paid only, paid and freeIf paid options, what length of subscription/price structure is offered?

Not detected. The online scanner did not identify the website which contained material that had been plagiarised.

Basic plagiarism – copied and pasted from an electronic book

Not detected. The online scanner did not identify the electronic book which contained material that had been plagiarised.

General observationsEase of use, overall experience. If other features were included (e.g. spelling, grammar check), how easy were they to use and how useful were they?

The website itself is a very basic design with a header, some stats down the left hand side and a box into which text can pasted. In addition, files may be uploaded, although it sometimes struggles with this and crashes, so the scanning process is much quicker if text is copied and pasted directly into the browser. There is also an update which warns the user that, due to technical changes in the way search engines work (and new associated costs), the scanner may not "work correctly".No support is provided by plagiarism-detect.com – there is no FAQ section or even a "contact us" link, although it does integrate its facebook page into the website where users can leave comments. The most recent entry seemingly bemoans the website's failure to detect plagiarism in her submission, "the software is showing no plagiarism whereas another software [sic] is strong enough to verify the same". Seven people like this comment.The scanner is split up into four sections, check essay, check article, check webpage and other text, although the reason for splitting up the detector into four parts (meaning the user has to repeat the process four times) isn't explained, nor is the "other text" facility.

Plagiarism-detect.com detected plagiarism in three out of the six sample documents, detecting blanket plagiarism where a whole text had been copied from a website and a pdf, in addition to detecting plagiarism in a text where some of the words had been omitted. However, it did not detect plagiarism where some of the words had been changed or in a submission which had been paraphrased, nor did it pick up the plagiarism of an online electronic book.

Although scoring around average amongst its contemporaries by identifying plagiarism in half of the sample documents, the warning from its homepage, the unreliability of its document upload facility and the basicness of its overall design means it's a website many will want to avoid.